"It was a chance glance over a wall in the Indian state of Gujarat in the late 1980s that set Chicago-based arts journalist Victoria Lautman on an obsessive course that only now is reaching its conclusion.

Lautman looked down many stories into the depths of massive architectural form of the Rudabai stepwell in Adalaj, Ahmedabad. She was fascinated by the intricacy, beauty and surprise of the well. Her quest to see and learn more about the wells is being documented in an upcoming book featuring her photographs as well as her discoveries and best guesses about the hundreds of stepwells she’s visited since that first glimpse."

My India Photos, 2005-2017"When you are truly genuine there will invariably be people who do not accept you.﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿ And in that case, you must be your own badass self, without apology." -- Katie Goodman